Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-150"
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"The draft European Convention and Parliament’s opinion are generally sound. We are especially satisfied with the fact that full employment, transparency, equality and sustainable development are now included as essential parts of the Convention’s draft Constitution, something that is also welcomed in Parliament’s opinion.
On a number of points, our view differs from that of the opinion.
It should be stated that EU law takes precedence over national law only in cases where the EU has legislative competence.
The European Parliament cannot be the only parliamentary body for the common foreign and security policy. It must be possible for national parliaments too to be consulted.
We support the solidarity clause in the draft Constitution and are, in general, well disposed towards the draft Constitution’s wordings on the foreign, security and defence policy. We are, however, very doubtful about what the draft Constitution calls ‘structured’ and ‘closer’ cooperation, and we interpret the opinion’s affirmation of ‘structural cooperation’ as referring to precisely that type of cooperation.
The draft Constitution’s arrangements for the Commission are unsound. Each Member State should have its own full Commissioner with voting rights.
We do not accept what the draft Constitution refers to as the
clause. Nor do we accept treaty changes without unanimity and ratification.
The requirement of unanimity should not, as proposed in the opinion, be generally abolished in the cases of foreign and security policy and tax policy.
No exact time should be given for the end of the Intergovernmental Conference. The IGC must be able to take the time required, irrespective of the Presidency."@en1
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